Daylight Saving 2022 In Colorado: What To Know

Denver CO

22 February, 2022

1:14 PM

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DENVER, CO — In just a few weeks, clocks will spring ahead one hour for Daylight Saving Time. This year, the clocks will change on Sunday, March 13, at 2 a.m., causing Coloradans to gain an hour, granting longer days and later sunsets. Daylight Saving Time ends on Nov. 6 at 2 a.m. and will make Coloradans lose an hour. Daylight Saving Time — that twice-annual tradition of turning clocks one hour ahead of Standard Time in the spring and falling back one hour to Standard Time in the fall — is not popular among Americans, with a recent YouGovAmerica poll showing 63 percent of Americans are in favor of abolishing Daylight Saving Time. Though a bill introduced in 2019 to the Colorado General Assembly that sought to exempt the state from observing Daylight Saving Time never came to fruition, a new bill — SB 22-135 — was introduced to the Colorado Senate on Feb. 16 with the intention of pursuing this exemption. "If the registered electors of the state approve the bill at the November 2022 general election, the entire state will be exempt from observing daylight saving time in the future, beginning in 2023, and MST will be the year-round standard time in the state," a summary of the bill stated. Patch writers Adam Nichols and Matt Troutman contributed to this report.